American Psychological Association (APA)
Thursday, 15 June 2017

PsycCRITIQUES Discontinuation 31/12/17

APA will be discontinuing the PsycCRITIQUES® database effective December 31, 2017. New content will continue to be added to the database throughout the remainder of this year. Starting January 1, 2018, we will begin to compile the data files per our perpetual access policy, and plan for the subsequent delivery of the relevant metadata and applicable database content to our customers per the policy. (15/6/17)

APA Makes eBooks Available through EBSCO Platform

APA is making its eBooks available to libraries on the EBSCO eBooks™ platform. The agreement with EBSCO Information Services gives libraries cost-effective access to in-demand psychology, behavioral sciences and social sciences titles. For more information about accessing APA titles through the EBSCO eBooks platform, visit: https://ebscohost.com/ebooks. (16/7/15)

Accessing new APA subscriptions

We send welcome letters to subscribers that are accessing new content on the APA platform [prior to the start of the subscription cycle, e.g. before Christmas.] We leave it to the vendors to send notification of access to APA databases on their platform. (APA, 11/12/12)

Backfiles on ScienceDirect

NEWS (21/11/06): For subscribers on ScienceDirect, as we will load all backfiles back to 1894, on ScienceDirect during Q1 2007. And this is especially good news for all current and future customers because the additional back years will become available at no additional charge!

This page is primarily for the information of CAUL/CEIRC members who wish to subscribe to this publisher's products and/or services. It provides information about offers to CAUL and CAUL-specific pricing, and links to relevant pages on the publisher's own web site. For other information, please go directly to American Psychological Association (APA).

APA Style CENTRAL combines sophisticated learning and teaching tools, writing and content processing technology, and full integration of APA's best-selling Publication Manual of the American Psychological Association. It will launch on July 11, 2016. (23/5/16)

PsycEXTRA, a companion to the scholarly PsycINFO database, supplies clinicians, information professionals, policy-makers, researchers, and consumers with a wide variety of credible information in psychology, behavioral science, and health. Most of the coverage is material written for professionals and disseminated outside of peer-reviewed journals. Documents include newsletters, magazines, newspapers, technical and annual reports, government reports, consumer brochures, and more. PsycEXTRA is different from PsycINFO in its coverage, and also in its format, because it includes abstracts and citations plus full text for a major portion of the records. There is no overlap with PsycINFO.
PsycEXTRA is available on APA, EBSCO and Ovid.

PsycBOOKS is a new full-text database of books and chapters in the American Psychological Association's array of quality electronic databases. The initial release in August 2004 features more than 500 APA books with copyright dates from 1950-2002, including 100 out-of-print books; 50 archival resources in psychology; and the exclusive electronic release of more than 1,500 entries from the APA/Oxford University Press Encyclopedia of Psychology. .... PsycBOOKS will be available on the APA's platform on 17 August. Available on CSA in early 2005, EBSCO in October 2004.

Frequently Asked Questions - page includes links to licences and fact sheets (19/3/12)
The consortium discounts are the same as for the other APA databases, though based on the total number of copyright years purchased....regardless of copyright year. .... previously the consortia discount was based on number of sites purchasing individual copyright years. The access fee may be waived if the site is a current PsycBOOKS subscriber. (25/11/09)

PsycARTICLES license (6/4/03)
For PsycARTICLES, the subscriber owns the data in the years that they subscribe. In other words, a new subscriber this year would own the 2004 data only. A renewal this year would own the 2003 and 2004 data. (23/10/03)
Re coursepacks—we have never charged libraries who have site licenses for using full-text content in electronic coursepacks. Since we began site licenses for the journals, we made them a part of the license. (5/8/10)

Statistics

FTE counts.

University FTE counts are taken from the official Dept. of Education statistics. Government organisation rates are the same as 4-year universities. For government & corporations, use the number of professional staff.

CAUL Pricing / Offers to CAUL/CEIRC

Members only documents may be viewed from the display at the end of this page.

CAUL discount level 20% for PI and PA, 15% for PB and PC, and 10% for PsycEXTRA and PsycTESTS at current subscriber levels; in addition a 15% discount applies to the first year of a PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS or a PsycTESTS subscription.

NB. PsycEXTRA is only available on APA, Ebsco and Ovid; Handbooks and e-Collections (books) for-puchase products and only available on APA PsycNET platform; PsycTHERAPY is only available on the APA PsycNET platform.

2012 APA Pricing for CAUL

Platform Pricing

OvidSP (29/8/11) [Members only]
"The American Psychological Association (APA) and Ovid, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health, have announced the availability of the APA's research database, PsycTESTS, on the OvidSP platform. In addition to PsycTESTS, OvidSP also hosts other APA databases. These include PsycINFO, PsycARTICLES, PsycBOOKS, PsycEXTRA, and PsycCRITIQUES."
(28/1/12)

EBSCO (1/9/11) [Members only]
"PsycTESTS now available on EBSCOhost" (16/7/12)

2008 Pricing for CAUL

Platform Pricing

APA (23/7/07)
CSA (27/7/07) [Members only]
EBSCO (30/7/07) [Members only]
Elsevier ScienceDirect (20/7/07) We also recently announced that the backfiles of PsycARTICLES will be available on ScienceDirect as of Jun 1, 2007. These backfiles (back to 1894) will be available for new and existing PsycARTICLES subscribers for no additional charge!
Ovid/SilverPlatter (6/8/07)
ProQuest - this platform no longer offered - ProQuest is now offering only the CSA Illumina platform (1/8/07)
Thomson Scientific (ISI) - Web of Knowledge platform not available from 2007 (7/8/06)

2004 Pricing for CAUL

Final list of subscribers for 2004 (8/12/03) [Members only] PsycINFO (data fee from APA, with discount based on 40+ subscribers and on the current 20+ subscribers) PsycARTICLES (data fee from APA, with discount based on 40+ subscribers (currently less than 40 CAUL subscribers)
*Note that introductory PsycARTICLES pricing is only available for NEW subscribers, not continuing subscribers.

Ovid or Silver Platter
APA PsycARTICLES pricing, and Ovid interface pricing (updated 13/10/02)
Please find attached details for PsycINFO 2003 subscriptions on the Ovid or Silver Platter platforms. The attached Excel spreadsheet has three separate worksheets, PsycINFO pricing by CEIRC member institution, PsycARTICLES only pricing by member institution, and special discounted PsycARTICLES pricing for those member institutions who already have a subscription to PsycINFO.
Special offer - an extra 20% discount on PsycARTICLES for 2003
In summary, all institutions who subscribe to PsycINFO are entitled to a 20% discount off the base price of PsycARTICLES plus Ovid's loader fee, and then an extra discount (up to 20%) for the consortia offer. PsycARTICLES is the only electronic source for APA's journals, and Ovid is the only version supported by the exceptional searching features of the Journals@Ovid database. You'll have access to the premium psychology content you need through easy-to-use searching tools that help to answer your questions, and advance your research.

†Note: Technology fees for the APA Handbooks in Psychology Series are cumulative to a maximum of $500. Therefore, a separate fee is charged for each handbook purchased up to a combined maximum of $500. Technology fees for a handbook purchase will be waived if the customer is subscribing to any APA licensed product on the APA PsycNET platform or one or more APA Books E-Collection and has paid the technology fee(s) associated with that subscription or purchase.